Government Minister confirms that well over three million human embryos have now been destroyed or experimented on and still only around two out of three embryos are transferred to a womb

Nov 12, 2021 | Parliament

Lord Kamall, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3361):

Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 11 February 2020 (HL1173), how many human embryos were (1) deliberately destroyed, and (2) transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies, in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many human embryos have been (a) deliberately destroyed, and (b) transferred to uteri since such procedures were made legal. (HL3361)

Tabled on: 25 October 2021

Answer:
Lord Kamall

The following table shows the number of embryos discarded and transferred to uteri to establish pregnancies from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The data is the latest information available and as shown on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) register database on 27 August 2021.

Month

Embryos discarded

Embryos transferred

January 2019

12,004

5,109

February 2019

15,731

7,074

March 2019

16,740

7,324

April 2019

15,137

6,503

May 2019

14,581

6,456

June 2019

13,326

6,119

July 2019

14,893

6,496

August 2019

14,938

6,739

September 2019

13,895

6,149

October 2019

15,225

6,889

November 2019

16,765

7,434

December 2019

9,680

4,135

Total 2019

172,915

76,427

Source: HFEA

The following table shows the cumulative figures for how many human embryos have been discarded and transferred to uteri from 1 August 1991 to 31 December 2019. The figures include additional validated data from previous years.

Total number of embryos discarded

3,106,319

Total number of embryos transferred

2,056,449

Source: HFEA

Date and time of answer: 11 Nov 2021 at 13:32.

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